Few Words from Before Sunset (2004)

It’s not so easy for me to be a romantic.
You start off that way, and,
after you’ve been screwed over a few times,
You forget about all your delusional ideas,
and you just take what comes into your life.

It reminded me how genuinely romantic I was,
how I had so much hope in things and now it’s like
I don’t believe in anything that relates to love,
I don’t feel things for people anymore.

In a way, I put all my romanticism into that one night
and I was never able to feel all this again.

Like, somehow this night took things away from me,
and I expressed them to you and you took them with you.
It made me feel cold, like if love wasn’t for me.

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You know what?
Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

It’s funny
I never felt it was the right man.
But what does it mean the right man?
The love of your life?
The concept is absurd, the idea that we can only be complete with another person is EVIL.
Right?

You know, I guess I’ve been heart broken too many times.
And then I recovered.
So now, you know, from the starts, I make no effort.

Céline

Before Sunset (2004)